Theatre & Performance Scholar and Dramaturg

As a scholar of the performing and visual arts, Meron Langsner, PhD seeks to make the intellectual examination of the arts relevant and accessible to both audiences and the artists themselves, as well as to engage with other scholars doing related work.

He has published, presented, and lectured on a wide variety of topics including: Performed Violence in Various Contexts (Opera, Greek Comedy, Film, etc.), Semiotics and Historiography of Stage Combat, Martial Arts, Development and Dissemination of Performer Training Systems, Puppetry, the History and Ethnography of the Actor's Headshot, Documentary Theatre, Tennessee Williams, Anton Chekhov, Tony Kushner, Directing, Adaptation, African-American Theatre & Film, and Acting.

Contributed Chapter 10: Theatre Hoplology: Simulations and Representations of Violence on the Stage

Contributed an article on balloon handlers in the MACYS Thanksgiving Day Parade to the Mega-Puppet themed issue.

Contributed entries on ULYSSES DOVE and STEPHEN McKINLEY HENDERSON

Contributed a Review of KAGE: THE SHADOW by John Donohue

Meron created and curated Whistler in the Dark Theatre's Scholah Holla Project, a series of scholarly discussions held in relation to their 2012-2013 season. These panels included junior faculty and advanced doctoral candidates from several prestigious institutions.

Meron was a Summer Fellow at Northwestern University's Performance Studies Institute in 2010. Other scholarly honors include: University Fellowship and Full Merit Scholarship at Tufts, Banner Bearer at NYU's Tisch Graduate Salute for the Department of Performance Studies, Performance Studies Scholarship at NYU, the Julia Pardee Prize for Excellence in Writing on Theatre & Dance History and Literature, and various conference travel grants.

As an educator, Meron was the recipient of the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education from the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Tufts University and received multiple Major Positive Impact on the Tufts Undergraduate Experience citations from senior surveys. He was also an Osher Scholar through CELT (Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching).

Research Areas: Violence in Theatre and Film, Physical Theatre, Performance Training, Martial Arts in Mass Media, Faust Narratives, Theories of Directing, New Play Development, Puppetry, Headshots and the Entrepreneurial Imperative of the American Artist, the Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company, Intersections of Real Estate Trends & Markets with the Fine & Performing Arts, and the Ethnography of Academia